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COMMERCE OF THE DOMINION For Eleven Months of Fiscal Year the Total Trade Was Over a Billion Dollars ‘A despatch from Ottawa says: An} c eleven months’ trade of well over.a billion dollars is shown in a state- Hon. J. D. Reid, inister of Customs, . The state- ment indicates ly expansion of the commerce of the Dominion, motwithstanding a long period of money stringency. For the eleven months.of the fiscal year, that is to the end of last month, the total lo of Canada amounted to #1) 019,685,000, as against $362,511,- 0 for tho corresponding period of the previous fiscal yenr. The ex- Porte reducts amount- ed in value to $404,887,000, the im- ports amounting to ‘565, 227,000. Ficports of domestic products in the orresponding period. of the pre- vious fiscal’year were $320,879,000, showing an increase in the present year of $84,003,000, month’s xports totalled ‘ eae Sa ports under these beads in the same period a year ago were: manuia tur is, $3,950, be seen that substantial increases took place in the exports of manu- factured goods and of animals and their produce, while the exports of agricultural produce decreased. PRICES OF FARM PRODUCTS REPORTS SROM THE LEADIND TRADD CENTRES OF AMERICA ‘Frices ot Cattie, Crain, Che fraduce at Home Breadstuffs. Mareh | 24—Flour—Ontarfo nto, iy oftering with prices nom- nat ae Ci to. $1, outsiae, —Goo snalting barley quoted Gee, qutsldsy. -ecoording "to market is higher. ‘quoted at Toren Canadian quoted at ait to 638e, fo. 2 is quoted at 62 onpuekwheat—Price: nominal, Si absence of offerings. Bran—Manitoba bran is firm at $23 fo $24 4 ton, in “pags, ‘Toronto freight. Shorts, $25 to $26, purely ie Suits Launched A at $5 to, $6 per ewt. The demand for butchers’ cows was good at ee ring. a $5 $90 to $100, ana lower ‘grades 960 ch. ‘The the market Pon eth be navatos iy oriee oe ac iemand is f thee nd fambs was quiet $6. x the former, and at Be.80 to $0 he latter per owt. The demand for ranging from COAL EE TACKED. Against Several Carriers in U.S. Courts. A Wake foe New York say A suit to St k the Lehigh Valley 664 ‘day. aa Commerce ae he Bite junction to prevent Sane “From yietiee restrainin, Count eae 1 —The mar steady | with oon dersana for Shokee allies cholee monopolizing or attempting to} _ dairy, 22 to 23¢ c;| monopolize trade and commerce in farmers’ separator prints, 28 <to.28ei Pape ‘ SSRES ena Treen ane: fo, a eae anthracite coal’’ is sought, and the prints, 28¢; solids, storage, 26 to 26 iovernment also asks that the rail- Se tret eg the market saguetnues af%¥;| road company be enjoined from. car- Sve, per goren, FS rying coal in which it has an in- Chieene “New cheese quoted at highed 1bfe for large, and 16 to Iie for twins, | terest, It isa d jon Ww nich, if ’ans—Hand-picked peniet ate LEH won by the Government, will com- 1 or era aba $210" tol nel the Lehigh Vailley Railroad B one, —Extracted, in tins, quoted at Company to disassociate itself from i va. tee Roce for No, 1. Sons 33 12| coal companies, which, according to 32.50 Por °| the petition, it controls enpgults 1349 49 aux ts | “Similar suits against the Lacka- Beese, 19 to L ioe wanna and Reading Some are Potatoes ~The market ell under way, and it is expected a Offerings Imited: note je per bag, on ack and Detavwares at dee 25 $1, om track, sions. are quoted as follows:— in a ured mn Bacon, lear, case Tots, ae a neats Shei breakfast bacon, 18 to i9c;" backs, 22) Bie agree meray ic; tubs, 143c; pails, led Hay are fair th. prides steady. No.1 is quoted a $14 te $14.60.0 ton, on tracks, here? No. ats 50, and mixed at baled ‘eigt—Car lots, $8.50 to $8.75 ‘on track, Toronto, ontreal Ma Markets. Sahteegte mae Xo. 2 yollow, 784 to i Pestern, No. 2. 4 Winter ‘patent, $5.25 straight rollers, $4.70 to 34.90; 0 to $2.30, ‘Rolled oats Sto. $4. AS, bag. 0. Millfe Taladlings, Hay— hee ‘onds, 27, toes-—Pe raed ae liad rl fice Tr OsSe% 10g 8—. Ht toi r=! ee Hi 50 0 re 5. onto 04; do., het, ic; pure, tierees, B15" Ibs. do.; wood pails, 20 Ibs. ‘net, 14}¢, United States Mark: Aina pelle, March Nort No, orth Bin to 93% ce “Gate 0 37¢. Flour ea bran . Whee Ohi 92. for ays Dive Stock oor asks, oH pounce) receiver, with 0 5o| phone pecangenieny, which has now | 9, ie teen adopt ci of the Supreme Court that cacl group against which monopoly is charged — should proceeded 3; against separately, 0. parE ae WIRELESS TELEPHONE. Mareoni Will Aerophone Across the Rome, March 19.—Signor Guigli- 88 gone aval officers who xperiments are convinced that ‘he has completely r—| solved the question of radio-tele- phony. They say that Signor Mar- coni in his experiments did not use any special apparatus. The exist- ing aerographic installation served his purpose with slight medica tions, . One of these was a new ceiver of his own invention, ee ing a microphone, which is essen- aly different from all others. ignor Marconi’s improved high- a dicta- can Rca ae human voice an be clearly heard by. everybody, present in addition to the operator was e c|ed letter, which reached the Nation- The Late Hon, William Patterson. RECOVERED $16,000 BILL, Had Been in Messenger’s Pocket Since it Was Stolen in 1912, was convicted of stealing a register- al Park Bank of New York with a sugar report instead of the $200,000 sent by the National Bank of eee This was in October, 1912. This of the twenty $10, - ‘h were stolen from the at time. The police have Set searching for the money ever re confident that they wall soon find the rest o RETURNS. IMMIGRA sal Bulk of Inrush is 5 From the British, Is A despatch =o Ottawa says: ¢ total immigration to Canada ae the 11 months, aoe ae is ruary, of the curren 363,038, made up of 136, 09. Bri, 97,408 American, es 128,923 from all other countrie: uring the 2. emote 11 ties months of last fiscal year, the total pies was 357,331, composed of 133,71 24,398 American, and 9 2 fro ‘om all other countries. The i specs is 2 per cen ‘ATOR HEWITT BOSTOCK, ceaveced Uiboratileader in the Senate, guceession to Ake date “Slr George vw DEVONSHIRE : LIBRARY SOLD. Tack of Funds Prevents British Mu- seum From Securing It. ndon, Mare — Messrs. sothane announce: “this evening | that they were Oe a to state ke of that the Duke order to meet. the ie 2 posed by the death dut: a small portion of his library, con- Meters the Caxtons ie the Kem- ble selleaiecn of play TFAMINE REIGNSIN JAPAN TEN MILLION‘PEOPLE IN NEED | ‘FoopD. Failure of the Rice Crop in ‘the rthern Part of the Empire . tie Cause, Part of Taba is now within the grip ee ‘the worst famine that has occur in one undred years. Ten SES people are in the fam- to keep from starving to death at “200, 000. Fortunately the Goyermnent is alive ito the situ- ation and thas set aside $6,000, 000, sored will be it would take. abant $750,000 a dy to buy meals for all the persons i the famine area, but, of course, as There ‘The s been Tong. ae eee is waising famine funds among th decngheagd cake ja Tneess the library. Each new offer Rice and Fish Fail. promptly eclipsed until Henry ‘iE Huntington ‘made a bid = contest, The Br eRe ie library for- the museum, but were compelled to retire from the fight carly, owing to PAL aati Fire destroyed the 300,000-bushel elevator of the Pioncer Grain Co. at Magrath Harbor. Rey. J. A. R. Dickson, pastor of Central Presbyterian Chureh, Galt, Looking Down Into the Ruins-of the Woodbine Hotel. ATTEMPT TO SAVE POTOMAC. Six Men Travelling Over Ice Reach- ed the Abandoned Tug. ‘A despatch from Curling, Nfld. says: Six men sent by Consular- Agent Gould, boarded the aban- doned United States naval tug Pot- omac, after a trip of one hundred miles over land and sea ice. The an tomac was found five miles south Point Riche, at the mouth of the Brats of pelle sisle, atl trbtan in and very, little Sas eh hold. other party, with pumps and dyna- mite, is a the way to the tug, and coal and a ton of provisions on be 5 me was maintained ‘sien the slightest energy day and night with ships 45 miles away al 5 miles apart, i| spite of the intervening loud sounds whatever is said is invariably clear. Distance, instead of diminishing, increases this cleamess. Res tihets Athee, putehers, $7.80 medium, affec {| aerophony considerably less than aerography, and hence if the energy increased wireless e*:| telephony is possible at any. dis- 6 Marconi has confided at he will {| shoxtly aerophione across the Atlan- tic. Seer (sete Sir Sandford Fleming has been unanimously re-€lected Chancellor oh ae pen’s: versity for the ensu- this is his thir- OD awem Goda veal: = 65 to medium, $7 to $9. neep and Jambs—t, $5.50 fs ee hears, $8 to $2. a MSpenie “lambs, Hoxs—$8,75 to. $8.90 f.0.b.; 5 to $9.25 Tea and watered: $9.60 of cars. ies March 24. ey steers soldat $8.35 to sill, good at $7.75 to $8, fair iat $6.15 to ¥ie0s, and ‘common: three years. teenth election. POISON SERVED AT DANCE Ten Made Ul, Two of Them Have Since Died prone < ffects 2 eB Se I ‘A despatch from ‘Revelstoke, B. C., -says: Provincial Constable Rethuall haejust seharded to-town with the bedies of two victims of a tragedy which eccurred at Malakwa, nearhere, appears that on Fri- day night. liquor was purchased in Revelstake by a Malakwa man for| bu ¢onsumption at a dance at Malakwa * an Saturday. 7 As a regult of partaking of this stunt Kis ed at the dance were y taken ae during Sunday and meee day, and two, a marri ant 1 Data of Silane, and Olaf at Jen sen, a labore: n~ Monday in terrible Se ‘Odes inéhiding Pat Labeau, brother of one very seriously ill, ing. Constable Rothwell holds the bottle containing a small quantity, of the poe which will be produced at the BE of the | o! PREFERRED DEATH SENTENCE Dramatic Sceno at Murder Trial im New ¥ A despaich from New York says: old, charged “with Ham GM: in the criminal branch of the € Crashed by harge against ee son, his eget and § be- side the youth and etl teens him to plea vuilt: murder in the second aegis, Sonat his life at least might i oe i Schae de wn and wept, but he chadnaiely refused to accede to the importunities of his parents, “T would: rather go to the electri¢ chair than spend twenty years in was the youthful prison- er’s answer to all arguments. Si oe es 9-YEAR-OLD BOY DROWNED. Was Pushed Into the River While Playin: A despatch from Toronto. says: while playing on the bank of the eae nee Howland’s grist mill, wit! “of companions, Harold Mather s, the nine-year-old son of eo red eT eee f Lambton Mills, was identall ete into the river ora drowned. guest. payee MARK TWAIN AND WHISTLER. How the Artist Was “Taken In” By the Great Humorist. One time Mark Twain met James | 4 McNeil. Whistler, the artist. A friend having wan ‘ned the humorist that the pamree was a confirmed j mnly ated that he would get ‘the Dene of By nile should the be h_ event if te eavens ,sir!’? exclaimed Whistler, aln%st beside himself. “Be eare- fal and don’ f touch that; the paint not dry yet.” ‘Oh, I don’t mind thet, i reaied: Mark, with anair of periec, nonchalance, “Tm wearing eo The Truth Abouf Grape-Nuts Food. Tt doesn’t matter so much what: you hear about a @ , it’s what you know that counts. And correct to co! writes: an Eastern man, “Iw red by indigestion, especially during we forenoon.” T tried several, reme ee any foe improve- ray breakfast, Usually consisted | of oatmeal, s chops, bread, | coffee and sonie e “Hearii y much about and find out if all had — of it was true. © Sol began with Grape- Nits and|© cream, soft boiled eggs, toast, a cup _ Before oda and “By the end of the cota week all traces of indigestion had ‘disap- peared and Iwas in first rate health once more. Before beginning this course of diet, I never had any m | norther The primary cause of the famine seithe laluse ot the rice crop in the n part mpire, and eid pie dus Bee She keenest mer, The stalks grew as usual, in- deed, much better than usual, but without any heads, and were fit and oat crops with us. Apart from rice the Japanese eat more fich than anything else. The fish catch, too, was a failure, and for that the rice failed. far reach of the fishermen, who w equipped for the most part for fish- ing near the shore line. In other years when the rice crop failed, it had happened that the fish catch was abundant, and when fish were scarce, rice was vat tee Not for one hundred y as there been such a tragic Ne Acietics of failrse. Dealers In Humanity. Long before the general public in Tokio knew that ther no’ in that city whos d Hines flesh and blood were hurry- ing to the'scene to buy young girls for brothel and factory in a falling market. Their parents being. too thowsands 0 cases, willing enough fo sell heey children to these white beg Some were so glad to get rid of. their daughters that they accepted ridiculous prices, and oc- casionally one was picked up ‘for nodhing when emaciation had blur- ed her beauty and it seemed prob- Mie that she would hardly liye to reach the capital. ‘These brokers a least have made a good thing out the fam’ Jorrespondents in on ae seeds that would hardly arial ‘and decomposed food that a dog would not touch. Thousands May Siarye. In one house an unhealthy fish , | head sefehea. from the refuse of a added some grass § This expected to provide abies ae Top the family. Two doctors examine: one little boy who was suffering se- and from his stomach they hunger. most acute, the < children no longer The hers, the hundred, the: people thavige been too p: pay ‘their salaries, Pais will be the teachers and ped- ple of their class who are without se their sufferin; sinaies and others bir are giving upen the spot! How many mandeeds or thousands of them will slowly starve to death, or starve until they can endure no more an S| then commit suicide, nobody knows. Cold Weather In Japan. To the torments of Starvation is nee ‘the = | hele ideas of Japan from pictures upon places and‘ musical comedies suppose that. the country is a land of perpetttal sunshine and flowers and cherry: blossoms. act is ‘instance, and still Poeee ‘north there are Bical falls ‘of snow, and a tempera- turé that frequently drops below zero. The cold weather, too, lasts until April and it will be two »- {months before the: ee ad an en-|€Xpesuie cease Some cases fo the mea at ee Ae: sion @oslahis mule ai Name given by Canadian, Postum their houses for rice, and now, hay- Se Windsor. Ont. ead ‘Phe | ing eaten the rice, aro without shel- to Well ile,” in pkgs. | ter, A case is mentioned of a house Lia s a Reason.” square féet being of- A new | fe’ 0, and when there was Ever read the above Ietter? ‘one time to time. They are gennine, true, and ful} 9: ereste - int ink down and used for Beane fi fo: no ae wel, A correspondent comments, Since rice consti-|V™ in} that he arriy oO wat keep a horse alive; eating animal | did im; S| affected by Bright's kaido districts, where the famine is] the e most part | ga valk, Your moncy back if Gin Pills do not cure, Rhe ie apres fe heumatiota quiet) 1 Hs eae ‘most, perfcet Kiduey fora Mating Org and Chesil Co of Canada Unten + it and (0 ha ‘ets. me tor $2. Sond ‘eo espatch from Venice says: Pri of the sixty-five passengers on a steam launch, most of whom Were women and children, were drowned when a torpedo boat crash- ed’ into a pleasure vessel near Lido ji on Friday. sare people on the launch were rom Li ming to Venice:fi where a ees number of exeursionists had e; ca the holiday, St. Joseph’s apparently miscalculated the speed FIFTY DROWN IN COLLISION Italian Torpedo Boat Crashes Into a Pleasure 4 Launch—Victims Mostly Women and Children = a ’ : 4 ‘ and distance, and did not alter his Seu with the result that the tor- pedo pon struck his vessel with ter- rifie The | launch sank i -|The other ‘fiteen passéhgers, vo were on deck, were picked up fro: the si Many oats from warships in ie hasbory ceclain one from the Ger- an. cruiser, Goeben, ee craft, mushe »| where the launch had gone down, put could not rescue any of those in. e cabin, as not one of them came : ‘2 the surface, upon the fact that when the spec- tanylar earthquake occurred offers of assistance came from all over tie ord sine ds nothing spec- tacular, however, about slow star- <|i7s enacted in Northern Japan. rt BRIGHT’S DISEASE BEATEN. Success for Alkaline Irrigation Is Claimed. Powis arrest of Bright’: s disease by ew treatment of ‘‘ washing” | he: Bes She A kidneys with certain al-|q kaline substances was claimed as a eee of the dise: Dr. Di Chariton, one of the physicians at the hospital and who devised the new method of ‘treat- ment declared that not only in the tent that each patient treated|troyed the villago of Luscland, es | could live ‘his natural span of life | Sask. po further trouble from the most famous will case ever kidne; was taken eptionally mee able by the poe physicia: De Charlton took up the case and twice a day a s; “high irrigation’? with fixed alkaline sub- stances was utilized, so that the af- fected kidney was being continually bathed in an alkaline | solution. Constant testing showed that the toxicity of the organ had heen over- come through the heroic means of treatment, but improvement in Frohman’s general physical condi- ~The patient and snd such told > With oes and watehful nas he pone Oo More. le from his iddneye: In explaining ‘the theory upon which he had carried outshis method of treatment, Dr. Charlton said: “Tt is well known that Bright's isease is ene by. op ii ney be- ing unable to ri ne blood as it acter ie ae that o an. “Of course, there will always re- main in any kidney which has been disease the sears caused by that disease, but n can perform its'funetion for an unlimited numberof years, provid- ing a keen watch be kept oyer the general health, “In washing, the kidney by the new method, we simply change the This overcomes, the hag city and the entire system cleansed of its sc arecauunanee at poison ~An extensive'reporton Dr. Chan ton’s thet a be made tothe Ame: Jeal Association and other pects bedies soon. PSEA RTECS Sout Stunt for Papa. recision of the’ Appellate _Divi- sion of peg aaa Court in’ the jointly own- ed, the husband has the right to regulate ihe: Parietal and it is ae duty to do The casé of Btead Gamble, of To- rento, Pea Be nt for the Tron orkers’ Union, ne te with dam- aging a ee versed until ial, “The ase = Frohman, however, | Mrs. -| the witnesses, to be delivered: int , has been tra- ae NEWS OF THE MIDDLE. WEST BETWEEN ONTARIO AND BRI- TISH COLUMBIA. NE. {tems From Proyinees Where Many a @ntario Boys and Girls Are “Making Good.” ion. Dr. Montague, ere of va Works ie: Manitoba, if! ion e carricd greetings from the May- or of Winnipeg to the Mayor ies Gotham. SAREE. and Chisrleds “t hy the North‘ West Mounted relies, charged with arson, It was alleged that they caused the $50,000 fire which des- The m heard e yest has just aniieg, Hutton move: a ry Will nu ek late ushanl and los 1. a The estate in-* volved ‘totalled - ‘125, 000, and the costs will be paid out An investigation will be demand- claimed that the be spent was $250,000, nearly $400,000 was spen’ Chief Justice Haultain, i in the Su- preme Court of Saskatchewan, com- mented ‘strongly on the great preva- m but that le to punish the practice in the near future. side t next uring the time the: men were there the thermometer dropped to 40 be- low zero, Samuel Kirk of Hamiota, Man., — could not start his gasoline ongine, so took ‘the gasoline to the house. ate warm it by piecing the cate. ne £8 hot water on a stove. © gasoline exploded with: the result that Mr. Kirk and this six-year-old daughter were burned to deat + Edmonton at the conclusion of a civil case, Chief Justice py ordered John, A, Gauthier, one the hands of the sheriff. jailed and i ce to be tried for perjury. Too many people, tho” judge’ said, went into court with the idea ot winning their case ra- ther than telling the truth. peice vis! ae FOUND DEAD AFTER DUCKING Tce-Cold Dip Caused Death of Ot- ans A despatch son Prescott says: Charles: J, f Ottawa w. found dead in his room in the Alex- andr 1 He was em- ployetl as engineer by a firm of con Sane: who are making aiieraaone to the Government steamer Bay- — field, in winter quarters here. While ~ at work he fell into the ice- ae . water. Coming te the © hotel, changed his wet clothes and seated e body was forwarded to Ottawa for interment. 7Y INVESTMENT | a St dave notes 28 years. High Glees Profit-Sharing Bends, Be ae $509, $1990 INVESIMENT sey sme any ti Send tor epectal NATIONAL SECURITIES CORPORATION, LIMITED: PO roR CONFEDERATION LIFE WUtL OIG ma after ‘one ¥% ss pie ae 2 older ‘and’ fall partiewlars. ek. of ONTO, CANAD.